The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-31
GOV. TaHIor,s aE,eech.

The tendency of all governments Is
toward Capitalization OF power. This
tendency gives birth to O contrary ten.
dency OF dissipation Of power snd con-
sequent communism and anarchy.
Conc ntrsted power breeds tyrants,
and tyrants create rebellious. For
proof Of this l point to the history of
the world. For proof of this l point to
the history Of England. That history
is the history OF revolutions, of glib
bets and scaffolds. 1t is the history
of conquest and coercion. No wonder
Shakespeare wrote his tragedies. No
wonder he told the dark and bloody
tales Of the Tower Of London. He
was writing the history Of England.
The Eoglish monarchy, in it's treat.
ment of the Irish nation, has epitom-
lied the history OF mans inhumanity
to man from the days Of Cain and
Abel to the year OF our Lord 1887.
There is no example In all the endless
catalogue OF wrongs which England
has not illustrated with cruel empha.
sis in her relations with that noble
hearted and unfortunate people.
Since the contamination Of that stu.
pendous crime, perpetrated in the
union Of 1900 la the name OF law and
order, the soil and people Of Ireland
have been the property OF rapacious
and spendthriIt aristocracy, who have
plundered both with all the effrontery
and greed OF professional bandits. The
law and order pretext was fulfilled by
the murder of Robert Emmett ia 1903,
and has been fulfilled ever since by
starvation, ruin, poverty, fomented
rebelions, imprisonments, judicial
aud military murder, coercion and q
wasting popu alton.
During this long night OF eighty-sev.
en- years, which has hung like a pail
of death over Ireland, her people
writhed and suffered in the CALLING
chains OF English oppression. And
today, when Ireland pleads for mercy,
England adds thorn to her bloody
crown; when she implores for free
dom, her chains are riveted tighter
when she begs for self government,
she is auswered with English bavonets,
and when she entTests for bread, Eng'
land gives be. stone.
oh, Erin, t Q beautiful NJ Oh, sea grit
isle OF the shamrock and Hose, would
that fate bad decre:d for thee better
lot. The altar Is erected on thy soil
for the immola.ion Of liberty The
sscrifcisl knife, dripping with the
blood Of innocence, stands uplifted
and trembling over thy helpless chill
dram.
The policy Of England during the
centuries of her domination over Ire
land has been a policy Of coercion.
From the dnion OF the kingdoms down
to the present day the greater part oil
the legislation for Ireland has consist
ed OF coercion acts. Here the COY
ernor read extracts from an article 10
the North American Review" recit-
ing In de all the many sCts OF coercion
and oppression inflicted on Ireland by
the Parliaments Of England since the
year 1803.1 &
Each one OF these acts was within
iteelf an engine of intoleraole Cypress
ion directed and operated against az
uuarmed and helpless people Th'
English Parliament has ground Gu
nothing but coercion scjs Tor Ireland
aud the crown has enforced them II
blood and violence by standing aimieI
of soldiers and constabulary.
The people have been taxed 70 sup
port these armies, and that without
1.-THE OF q chance TO earn tue neceH